Thursday, January 13, 2011

- Tomorrow (January 14th) a computer built by IBM will match wits against Jeopardy's two greatest champions. The contest will be shown on television in February. Deep Blue beat Kasparov in chess over 12 years ago, so you might be thinking to yourself, "why is this a big deal? The computer will crush them." The computer may very well win, but programming a computer to handle voice input and natural language processing in such a fashion that it can play an effective game of Jeopardy really is a big deal! More about the match:http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101214/ap_en_tv/us_tv_man_vs_machine

- When you type the name of a state into a Google search, what is the first thing you see at the top of the search results?